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John Albee

I lived from 1833-1915. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

My poetry

  • Music and Memory
    Enchantress, touch no more that strain!
    I know not what it may contain,
    7 lines, 4 comments
  • A Winter Walk
    It is not often Sunday draws
        Me to that house where good men come;
    60 lines, 2 comments
  • Maid And Boy
    Come, little maid, from youthful days,
      And let me paint you as you stood;
    45 lines
  • Fading Barriers
    If I have ever told you all my heart
    Was yours, and perfect was the love it bore,
    17 lines
  • Landor
    Come, Walter Savage Landor, come this way;
    Step through the lintel low, with prose or verse,
    17 lines
  • Ruth Gouch
    Forth walked Ruth Gouch, fallen and disgraced;
        And all but women pitied her,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • Recreation In Love
    That thou art high above me I have found
    Full oft; when all alone my heavy brain
    17 lines
  • Bos’n Hill
    THE WIND blows wild on Bos’n Hill,
      Far off is heard the ocean’s rote;
    26 lines
  • Dandelions
    Now dandelions in the short, new grass,
    Through all their rapid stages daily pass;
    11 lines
  • A Soldier’s Grave
    BREAK not his sweet repose—
    Thou whom chance brings to this sequestered ground,
    14 lines

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